"From day one, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (name
changed to Earthjustice in 1997) used the law to even the odds against powerful special interests."
- from Earthjustice website.

With a start as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Earthjustice has
been an ongoing part in a series of lawsuits - generally
with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the
agency in which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
is located. While the Secretary and the Department are the
supposed targets of these suits, the fishermen and the people
in the businesses who depend on them are the actual victims,
the successful (for Earthjustice) settlement of these suits
equating to ever-greater restrictions on fishing. Earthjustice
has received over $23 million from Pew (link).

Heavily involved in an ongoing attempts to scuttle the domestic
herring fishery (link)
along with the Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association
(recipient of over $1.5 million from Pew).

Filed to have the Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association
participate as Amicus Curiae on the side of the Secretary of
Commerce in a suit filed by members of the fishing industry
and the towns of New Bedford and Gloucester, Massachusetts againstharsh
groundfish management measures imposed on New England's
oldest fishery in 2010 (link)